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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Walter Scott
Murch (born July 12, 1943) is a film editor and sound designer, the son
of painter Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967).He went to The Collegiate
School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. He
then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1965, graduating in
Liberal Arts. While at Hopkins, he met future director/screenwriter
Matthew Robbins and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with whom he staged
a number of happenings. In 1965, Murch and Robbins enrolled in the
graduate program of the University of Southern California film school,
successfully encouraging Deschanel to follow them. There all three
encountered, and became friends with fellow students such as George
Lucas, Hal Barwood, Robert Dalva, Willard Huyck, Don Glut and John
Milius, forming a clique of friends collectively known as The Dirty
Dozen. All of them would go on to be successful filmmakers.
